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Decomposing Gender Equality along the Wage Distribution in Vietnam during the Period 2002–14
| Author | Tien Manh Vu, Hiroyuki Yamada |
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| Date of Publication | 2017. 3 |
| No. | 2017-04 |
| Download | 309KB |
Contents Introduction
In this paper, we decompose the gender wage gap along the wage distribution in Vietnam during the period 2002–14 and search for the presence of a glass ceiling/sticky floor in wages using the method proposed by Chernozhukov, Fernandez-Val, and Melly (2013). We focus on the formal sector and further divide the sample by educational level, age profile, occupational type, and industry. We find evidence for a total gender wage gap with the price of skills (the price gap) being the main contributor. There are also findings of increases and decreases in equality along the gender wage gap distribution and the formation of a sticky floor and a glass ceiling in 2014 in some of the data.